Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 9

He was shivering with cold; if he had not been let in, he would certainly have perished in the storm.

Who acts: creature · What happens: shiver, not let in, perish · To what, where: creature, storm

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shivering	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shivering	aux
3	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 cold	case
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shivering	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 let	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 let	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 let	aux:pass
12	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shivering	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	12 let	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 perished	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 perished	nsubj:pass
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 perished	aux
17	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	19 perished	advmod
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 perished	aux
19	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 let	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 storm	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 storm	det
22	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 perished	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shivering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shiver	past · progressive	creature			with cold	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not let in a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		creature			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	perish	would · perfect · passive		creature	the storm	certainly property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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